Life Simplistic

I got ALL worked up last night. Like hotmesssnottynose style, thinking that I had made a series of wrong turns that most definitely had led me somewhere where I would never recover from. Leading me to call it an evening and turn off the lights, tuck myself in with a soft blanket and retire my thoughts. I woke up today with my eye lids sealed shut with sleep and the desire for peanut butter (because peanut butter fixes empty stomachs and I somehow managed to not even eat dinner last night). So after a bagel with peanut butter, a cup of coffee and some new music put on my phone I decided I needed a change of scenery. If gas didn't cost so much I would have just driven for hours today. No direction, no map, no GPS, no intent except to look out the window at this:

It was blue. It was radiant. It played into my thoughts from reading Kelle Hampton's blog this morning. The sea provides a constant reminder and grounding for Kelle, there she sees sunsets and sunrises, like clockwork, a simple reminder that despite all, the world will continue to move us forward...reminding us that a bad night will pass and tomorrow has the promise of big fluffy white clouds hanging in a crystal blue sky.

So I didn't drive for hours. Instead I tried to go to Buzz for some coffee, cookies and a session with my Module 1 PHR prep book. Buzz was packed. So was my favorite Starbucks in Old Town. So was the Library. Detered not I found  an ordinary Starbucks, with little-to-no charm, but it had an open seat and I sat down to study. I swear I had opened my book for a total of 2 minutes and I hear a guy telling his friend about his new home in Idaho and how the Sawtooth mountains are framed in his living room windows. Leaning a bit closer, I heard him continue to talk about this amazing little town of Stanley Idaho. I couldn't resist. I had to pull my Idaho card. So we chatted about Idaho things. Like open spaces, and cold weather, and river rafting and deer in your backyard. It is a small small small world....after all.

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And if you haven't listened to all of this yet. You really should. It makes me sing at the top of my lungs in the car, taping the steering wheel, rocking out in that type of way that one does when no one is watching.  

Keyspiration

Just like my pony phase that never went away (yes, mom and dad...I still want a pony a real pony) I am still obsessed with keys. Of course Pintrest has given me a whole new forum for finding some keyspiration and I naturally have my Keys Board, full of all things keys. This morning my SW, Sara, sent me a link for an iphone case that I just might have to purchase if I ever trade in my failing blackberry for an upgrade.

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And these. I can hardly keep my wallet in my purse. I love them so much. My love of flats coupled with keys...a harmonious style for my feetsies. Now if only the faking it until making it has worked and I had some expendable income to purchase these lovelies.For now, I will pin and lust.

That is Love

Love is a strange and beautiful thing,



It spans time and space, distance is no object to love.


You will wait forever for the one you love,


Travel wherever you need to be with them.


When you are in the arms of the one you love,


That love can make a moment last a lifetime,


Yet make a lifetime seem no more than a moment.


When love is distant it grows strong,


When it returns it flowers.


People crave it, strive for it, fight for it, and die for it,


And when they find it, they know they are complete.


For in the arms of the one we love is wholeness,


Belief, completeness, passion, and security.


The one we love is someone for whom we would do anything,


And never ask for anything in return.


It produces a love of all that person is and will ever be,


Regardless of what that may mean to me.


Love knows that when you are away,


That you are still loved, cherished, thought after, and missed


By the one you love,


And they know that you love them back.


That is Love.






- Nicolas Blackmore -

Great Falls

Yesterday we both (great minds think alike! Or we just spend a lot of time together) had the inspirational idea to drive to Great Falls and go for a little walk and soak up some more of this unusually (really lame) warm February weather. The drive from DC was really pretty and complete with viewing some over-the-top ill designed McSuburbMansions.

In additional to seeing the falls we took a peaceful stroll through the trees and saw some of the remnants from George Washington's locke project.

It was a little peace and nature that does my soul good.

C-A-P-S Caps Caps Caps!!!

Well luckily for me, the bf has mastered the fine art of "not keeping score" if you will. Long, long, long ago I did something to completely warranted him taking someone else to use these amazing tickets he got to the Caps. Like I said...I am one really lucky girl...and he wanted to spend the evening with me in these crazy great seats!

Sadly the Caps lost, but I love sitting so close and getting to see all the action up front and personal! We could feel the cold of the rink, would jump back when the players smashed into the glass, and could hear how much force is behind that puck!